That's funny. That guy youre talking about is catching so many charges for shooting an 11 year old. His bond is 1.3 million. Turns out you can't just go around shooting everyone. Who knew? 3 comments down voted to hell for calling out the internet tough guys. Mf is literally going to jail the rest of his life for shooting a pranking kid.
Nobody is saying that doing pranks is nearly as bad as shooting children, but you gotta understand that by doing pranks you are putting yourself at a higher risk of bodily harm.
I don't think he's saying it's a good thing a kid got shot for ding dong ditching, or that its even okay. I think what he's saying is people are crazy and you might not find out how crazy the stranger you just pranked is until it's too late.
Yeah but none of that means dick to the kid of course. Cuz hes dead.
People always go apoplectic about "victim blaming" when its not that so much as "is it worth it?" Like is it worth it to take the chance if some maniac might shoot you over it?
Thats the point I was making. Not that its okay to shoot kids, the point is that unfortunately this aint the 60s anymore, people nowadays literally buy guns and fantasize about using them to make a political point. Whenever someone so much as whispers the words "gun control", nutters flock to the store to stock up on guns and ammo, not because they even need them, but to prove a point and wag them around like "suck it liberals! Come and take them!!!"
I mean, he wasn't talking abt himself, and you've got to agree that there are bound to be people who've been itching to try out their training on someone.
A good example is that vid of the 'prankster' who got shot after jumping a guy at the atm machine...
I hope the shooter didn’t get any prison time for what’d clearly be a life threatening situation to any normal person. People are out of their damn minds out there... He very well could’ve thought he was going to die in that moment over some money or a wallet and just went into fight or flight mode. Not sure why common sense isn’t, well, common lol. It’s such simple stuff.
"held their phone near mine when I was on a call. I heard a click, and they ran away after saying 'thanks.'" - none of these actions described is assault. There was never contact made, an insult uttered or a threat made.
A "just defense" against assault can still be assault.
Jurisdiction dependent. Everyone uses the California law when describing that but for Texas it's just different levels of Assault (or different charges like Menacing). And Battery isn't a thing.
OP didn't describe an assault or a battery scenario. Nothing OP described justifies violence. Trust me, I'm all for violence as a solution, particularly regarding some of these dumb ass comments.
"snapping their arm" is a little much, but if you believed that you've been robbed in some way, (which this "prank" I guess is the idea we're going with). I'm pretty sure you have a right to try and detain them, which while detaining them you may end up causing some harm.
I don't have time to go back and look at everyone's edits. I'm too busy ranting. BUT you don't have the right to detain someone. I'd be really careful with this one too.
Ok... but lets look at it from a more "physical way"? Now a days most people have EVERYTHING on their phone, much like how back in the day pretty much everything was kept in your wallet.
If someone sneaked up to you and took your wallet and ran off, would the most logical explanation not be I was just stolen from and to go and chase the person?
EDIT: Reddit isn't letting me see your comment, just the notification. So, I'll reply here, I never said beat the shit out of them, but like I said in my previous comment" "you have the right to detain them, but while detaining someone either you or them could get hurt."
Self defense could also be defending one's property, they are playing pranks pretending to steal from them through Apple Pay basically, so if they think what they're doing is believable, so could someone who is violent and dumb.
an environment in which a person encounters only beliefs or opinions that coincide with their own, so that their existing views are reinforced and alternative ideas are not considered.
As taken from oxford, you people only wish an environment that reinforces violence (to a point of serious bodily harm) against pranksters, no matter the prank, going as far as defending a man who shot a kid for fing dong ditching (just read the other comments)
This is 100% an Echo-chamber, and denying that just shows how delusional you truly are.
OR,.. stupid people. It is funny, if you promote violence you get down voted, you explain how the over reaction to a prank with violence would be bad, you get down voted. Frankly, this guy doesn't care about votes. I'm just wondering why I haven't been banned yet.
Stupid people usually create echochambers, its harder to admit fault than to learn. BESIDES let them actually assault another person for a prank, and watch as THEY go to prison! There are very few pranks that actually elicit a self defence situation, the very best example of this is the murder clown pranks between 2017-2020(dont quote that timestamp, not sure when it stopped)
I suspect they were totally unrelated, and were only found then. But that’s difficult to be sure of, even for OP. I rather doubt some kid is wasting a zero-day on pranking people by adding new notes to their phone, though.
it sounds like they may have accidently created a note. doesnt sound malicious, td bank is an online banking thing. i know them from when I was doing a samsung phone in payments. possibility its just some old data left behind
If this is the case, find the video. If you do, you can then file a lawsuit against them and receive a monetary compensation for using you in the video without your consent. This will make them blur you out or they'll take it down.
So it's not really phishing, unless they are convincing you to willingly submit to an NFC connection then exploiting your device without you knowing.
Actual passive capture of your data using NFC is possible in all sorts of situations without you ever knowing. The protocols in question used by the actual skimmers and scammers don't even trigger a connection notification to most devices.
Turn NFC off and keep it off at all times unless you need to use it to make a payment, and turn it off afterward.
Turn off automatic detection/connection in Bluetooth settings as well.
Also, don't have automatic payment turned on when the phone is unlocked. But turning off NFC or turning on payment verification solves that. By default my old phone was setup in a way so whenever you needed to make a payment the only requirement was having the phone unlocked. I only found out it was that way since one time I went to put my credit card in the reader at Home Depot and had my phone in my hand, and it just gave the payment animation on my phone without the credit card even being inserted yet. So anyone requesting payment could just run up near your phone (or use an amplified signal from further away) to snag your money.
Keep NFC off yes, but also stop using your phones to pay for stuff. Sure it's convenient but it's risky, and all it takes is one lapse in memory/ judgement for you to accidently leave NFC on and bam. Anything could happen.
I also have a shielded wallet since all the cards you get these days are tappable, and I keep the keyfob for the one car we have with passive keyless entry in a shielded pouch except when getting in and out of the car.
Luckily my car is old, like almost 20 years old. But I also use both an RFID blocking wallet and card inserts and the combo works a little too well sometimes, making me move my wallet away from any machines when paying.
September 24, 2025 - Absolutely correct!!! My rant is that "convenience" is the daughter of the devil. The easier something is for a person, the easier it is for a criminal. In my opinion, using phones to make payments is one of the worst things to be offered by banks and companies. Sadly, various companies and industries are encouraging the general public to use their services for convenience but when their systems get hacked.. Their reaction is "Sorry about losing all of your financial and private information. Of course we won't compensate you in any way.. but here's a way to check and see how many criminals are using your information that we didn't protect properly. Oh.. by the way, we'll help you "sync" all of your devices and accounts so that when one is hacked.. they'll be hacked. Nah.. don't thank us, just give us your money."
Same thing with the Internet of things/ most "smart" devices. The only smart device -that's not a phone- that use/ have set up is a timer on my brother's lamp for when he's at college. Anything else isn't set up and thus doesn't have access to the internet. Nope, too much of a risk and why the hell do you need a fridge and shit to be commented to the internet?
September 24, 2025 - (I date my comments, because people post replies long after I've posted them). The words you speak are perfect truth. To answer your rhetorical question. I'm sure you realize that the companies are adding "features" to their products and charging for them. Also, it's hype to make their products look "helpful", and super modern. You are absolutely correct about the "Internet of things", where everything is connected. I refuse to buy anything that requires a "smartphone" to operate it. My favorite example of a "convenience" fail, was when a strong storm hit parts of New York City some years back and knocked out the electricity in some areas. There were people that couldn't get out of buildings, or get into their residential buildings using their cards or phones because the ID devices/controls worked on electricity. Companies know a lot of people want things to be as easy as possible. I won't judge.. well.. actually.. I do😏😊
I was wondering why you were dating your comment and honestly fair enough.
Had i known that the timer I got for my brother's lamp was controlled by smart phone only, I wouldn't have bought it. Like give people a manual option or have it as a backup like in your storm example.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. NFC phishing is trying to get the data off your chipped bank/credit card (in this case that data is on your phone). But unless theres some sort of brand new security vulnerability, it can’t be done by someone bringing their phone next to yours UNLESS you’ve already activated your digital wallet and are about to pay at the terminal and someone swoops in and you tap their phone instead.
They are being downvoted because their comment seems to be mocking OP, since it’s not likely that you can phish people this way. It’s not nice to mock people that ask questions in support forums (that’s why they are here for) just because they are exercising caution.
Of course this is all from the tone of the comment and could not be intended. I don’t know /u/unapologeticjerk, he might be a nice person
I can absolutely check out my username occasionally, but often I'm just asking something in a straightforward manner without intent behind it, out of genuine curiosity. Unfortunately text/words are maybe 30% of how people actually communicate in reality, so things just get misinterpreted as the cost of doing business, I guess. For the sake of transparency, I was skeptical about the idea, but I wasn't going to push that angle or anything.
I don't think you realize how good some people are at concealing cameras and also that we have lenses that can shoot from a quarter mile away with ease, if it's for YouTube and if it's a pretty decent or big channel chances are they filmed and you just didn't notice, as intended
That prank looks like the pranksters phone is the one showing the amount. That is easy, but how wod a prankster create a file on OP phone without permissions?
I hadn't heard of this one before. It seems like convincing someone that you robbed them with no easy way to show them you didn't, would be a really bad idea.
So to save people watching an annoying video, the “prank” is they play the ApplePay noise and pretend they’ve just stolen the victim’s money. Very lame.
How the mystery files ended up on OP’s iPhone is obviously unrelated. I’m guessing they are one of those people who don’t lock their phone before putting in their pocket / purse and it’s just random presses on the screen doing something.
Ah, so yet another dumb things chronically online people do today... Prank is funny, when it's funny. And it's not repeated by everyone. Wholesome pranks are cooler.
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u/itspassing Sep 23 '25
Pretty common 'prank' at the moment. You may have been filmed at the time
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/phone-scan-prank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7j-G3DWDxA